Sentence examples for scarcely happen from inspiring English sources

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In his preface to Bérénice (1670), he asked what probability there could be when a multitude of things that would scarcely happen in several weeks are made to happen in a day.

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They also have concerns about patients' unrealistic expectations about surgery such as returning to the functional performance lost a long time ago: "There are the objectively unsatisfied patients: when there is a problem with the prosthesis, when it is loosening or when there is an infection, but that scarcely happens.

Bleary-eyed, the circus heads to Bristol, scarcely believing what has just happened.

He was followed by a royal train of grinning family members, political allies and campaign aides, some scarcely able to believe what just happened.

As far as the writers of the defeated Byzantine and Persian empires were concerned, the Arab invasions might scarcely have happened.

It is also, in theory, possible (but it has scarcely ever happened in practice) that an American parent company could be held liable for the acts of foreign subsidiaries "where they authorised, directed or controlled the activity in question".The power of American legislation to bring charges for bribery by non-nationals is, however, negligible.

The villagers scarcely fathom what happened, but they are touched and want to help.

The abuses and inaccuracy of the records can scarcely be accidental, they clearly happen so often.

We can scarcely afford for that to happen.

This may happen if the migration to the Sargasso Sea is scarcely or not completely synchronized among eels coming from distant geographic regions, concordant to departure time variation (Anthony Acou, pers. comm).

"Gotham: A History of New York City" is full of them.In this section Hog riots and tenderloin Brown in town Goût de terroir Bat raves Crossword prize-winners ReprintsFor more than two centuries, scarcely anything of significance has happened in North America that did not happen first in New York.

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